ISBN: 9780525243755 - peru (15 resultados)

Hardback. Condición: Good. Arguably Gordon Lish's masterpiece, Peru begins with its narrator announcing, There is nothing which I will not tell you if I can think of it. Gradually, the story of a dark childhood secret-real or imagined-unfolds: in 1940, six-year-old Gordon murdered his harelipped rival, Steven Adinoff, in a Long Island sandbox. (unless he didn't). Peru's narrator weaves together strands of disconnected, mesmerizing trivia, resurrecting memories of the mundane suburban childhood that spawned a killing: the sense of tedium on an endless summer day; the squishy sounds of a hoe digging into flesh. Ambiguous, complex, inventive, and subversively comic, Peru is a compendium of unnerving observations about memory, violence, obsession, and the potential horror behind the facade of an ordinary life.…

Hardback. Condición: Good. Arguably Gordon Lish's masterpiece, Peru begins with its narrator announcing, There is nothing which I will not tell you if I can think of it. Gradually, the story of a dark childhood secret-real or imagined-unfolds: in 1940, six-year-old Gordon murdered his harelipped rival, Steven Adinoff, in a Long Island sandbox. (unless he didn't). Peru's narrator weaves together strands of disconnected, mesmerizing trivia, resurrecting memories of the mundane suburban childhood that spawned a killing: the sense of tedium on an endless summer day; the squishy sounds of a hoe digging into flesh. Ambiguous, complex, inventive, and subversively comic, Peru is a compendium of unnerving observations about memory, violence, obsession, and the potential horror behind the facade of an ordinary life.…

Condición: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Condición: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condición: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condición: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: very good. Signed. First Edition. SIGNED by author. Pages clean and binding sound. Corners square and sharp. DJ clean, intact and shiny.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book has a red dot remainder mark to bottom of page block and a red slash to top of page block. Dust jacket has very minor edge wear and some light fading to upper edge of flaps. Dust jacket protected by a removable Brodart cover.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Very Good+, Not Price Clipped. American First. Complete number line from 1 to 10; minimal wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine as new copy in a fine unclipped dustjacket. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page--signature only. A tight and clean unmarked copy in a fine unclipped dustjacket. Protected in a new clear acrylic dustjacket covering and will be carefully packed and shipped in a box. Signature only without any inscriptions--1st printing with full 1-10 numberline. Scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).…

Hard Cover. First Edition. 1st printing. F+/F.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. US JC Bin 22-4.5 top: This hardcover is signed b Lish on the front endpaper, about fine in an about fine dj. Like new. Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condición: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 222 pp., Signed by the author on the front free endpaper.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 222 pages. Published in 1986. The author's second novel. Gordon Lish's finest achievement. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Publisher's "Autographed Copy" bold gold sticker pasted in front. Presents Gordon Lish's "Peru". His breakthrough: Ambitious, disruptive, and fully realized. It was critically acclaimed by fellow novelists and literary critics, four of whom, all now iconic figures, contributed blurbs on the Back DJ: Ann Tyler, Stanley Kunitz, Harold Bloom, and Don DeLillo. Lish delves into the psychotic mind. He plunges us headlong into the mind of the protagonist, Gordon, named after the author - his way of implicating rather distancing himself -, a man living in Manhattan's Upper East Side apartment with his wife and son, which the author was at the time (Atticus Lish, the son, is now himself a celebrated and brilliant writer). An atrocity, flashed across his television screen, precipitates his psychosis. The woman on the night crew assures him that it was only footage of a typical prison disturbance in Peru, mere broadcast-journalism fodder. Nevertheless, Gordon's schizophrenic derangement - vividly reminiscent of the repetitive, closed-off writings of Antonin Artaud, who was genuinely psychotic, whether a conscious nod on the author's part or not - sends him flashing back to his childhood in Long Island, when he killed another boy, which may or may have not occurred, the maddening ambiguity being the whole point. As such, the novel cannot - must NOT - be judged from the rational/moral point-of-view of traditional literature and criticism. Meanwhile, Lish captures the psychotic state of mind with irrefutable accuracy: "I killed Steven Adinoff in Andy Lieblich's sandbox. My God, just to be able to concentrate on something the way you could do it when you were six just to be able to put all your mind into it and all your whole body just to be able to do that with anything again just for one single solitary instant" (Gordon Lish). "An achievement, one that is poignantly American and yet representative of profound and widespread nostalgias. A voice like none other" (Harold Bloom). "Hypnotic, entrapping, masterfully designed" (Don DeLillo). "An absolute original" (Ann Tyler). An absolute "must-have" title for Gordon Lish collectors. This Autographed Copy is very boldly and beautifully signed, dated (before publication), and placed in black ink-pen on the front free endpaper by the author: "Gordon Lish 21 December 1985 Books & Co. ". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The author, through his publisher, held a rare pre-publication event at the legendary New York City bookstore. This title is a great book. This is the only such signed, pre-publication dated, and placed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. ISBN 0525243755. Signed by Author.…